Arrivals Quotes - Page 7

• The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Thinking, Feminism, Modern Woman

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• The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?

  V. P. Singh

  Powerful, People, Way

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• Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

  Deepak Chopra

  Knowing, Insecurity, Causes

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 31, 2011

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• Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

  Milarepa

  Haste, Awareness

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• O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
  To spend that shortness basely were too long,
  If life did ride upon a dial's point,
  Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Long, Gentleman

  1596-7 Hotspur. Henry IV Part One, act 5, sc.2, l.81-4.

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• We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.

  Eric Schmidt

  Business, Color, Tvs

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• Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

  Alan Paton

  Journey, Men, House

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Mean, Past

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• No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

  Lorrie Moore

  Boots, Matter, Rooms

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Sep 11, 2014

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• Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels that cross the sea towards no arrival. I see myself forgotten like those old anchors. The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there. My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose. I love what I do not have. You are so far. My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights. But night comes and starts to sing to me.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love You, Twilight, Tired

  Pablo Neruda, “Here I Love You”

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• And," Amber said, practically drooling as she ogled him, "it's tradition for new arrivals to help with the pep rally." Brooklyn quirked her lips in doubt. "Tradition?" "It's a new tradition," Amber shot back. "Clearly the deeper meaning of the word has escaped you.

  Darynda Jones

  Doubt, Amber, Brooklyn

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• It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Miracle, Matter

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Ambition, Doors

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.76, Broadway Books

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• How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.

  Neal Shusterman

  Kids, Wife, Forget

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.855, Simon and Schuster

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• Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Right Time, Accidents, Precise

  "Being Late". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

  Rick Yancey

  Native American, Thinking, Silence

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.36, Penguin

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• He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

  Rick Yancey

  Confused, Sharks, Aftermath

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.385, Penguin

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• Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

  William Feather

  Girl, Sex, Intelligent

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• It's a never-ending struggle, which is great. You can always get better! You can never get there. It's a journey with no arrival. And that's the beauty of it -- that you can always become better the next day. It's pretty cool to think about it in that sense. Tomorrow I will be a better player than I was today.

  Tiger Woods

  Struggle, Thinking, Player

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• Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
  The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
  For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
  Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.

  John Ashbery

  Music, Horse, Past

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Enjoy the moment, because that is all you have. You never are going to arrive someplace else. You are in a constant state of living in this moment, and that is the only arrival there is. In fact, you will arrive when you stop trying to get someplace else.

  Wayne Dyer

  Trying, Facts, Moments

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

  Franz Kafka

  One Day, Redemption, Lasts

  "The Third Notebook," 4 Dec. 1917 (translation by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins)

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• Since we had nothing to do with our arrival and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of us think we're entitled to so much while we're here?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Thinking, Departure, Entitled

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• My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Mean, People, Netherlands

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• If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

  Alan Cohen

  Home, Delay, Calm

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